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You are listening to Hello Cupcake, it's me, a podcast with your host, Michael Peterson.

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Hey everyone. Michael here with Hello Cupcake, it's me. And this is episode nine. I'm doing something a little bit different today. I have decided to do mobile podcasting. I have some errands that I got to run and felt like trying to use this new app and see what was going on. So yeah, anyways, last night I was just having a fucking moment. I just was going to explode. It felt like. And what I ended up doing was I went out to the bar and while I was at the bar I met up with a couple of friends who were there and started playing this TV trivia game called Tap TV and had a lot of fun. So I think that's going to be my new Tuesday and Wednesday night thing that I do and also met some new people, got talking to them and just had a lot of fun. Yesterday was like really hyperemotional all day long. Like I had to pick up the Ashes of my cat from the veterinarian and my new cat, he is newly fixed so he still wants to spray everything like a Tom cat. I was in making dinner and he was just going freaking crazy in my bedroom. I'm like, dude, what the hell is up? I go walking in there and the little fucker is pissing on my bed. And after just having a really long kind of shitty day already, that was the last thing that I needed. So yeah, I just stripped my bed, put some February on it and tried to clean it up the best I could. I didn't really want to yell at him because he's still brand new to the household and all that other fun stuff. And I don't want to get him associated with being scared of me because he's already a little skittish as it is.

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It was a whole bunch of bullshit. So like I said, after I got that all situated and cleared up, I just went out and that was exactly what I needed, was just getting out of the house, decompressing, doing something kind of outside the norm. Because usually what I do is I make dinner, I lay in bed and I watch Netflix until I finally pass out. And that wasn't what I wanted to do last night. So I had a lot of fun and it was great. And like I said, it's something I think I'm going to continue to do, at least for the next couple of weeks. And I might completely change out of that whole idea of wanting to go to the bar or whatever. But when I go, I don't drink. I just sit there and I have sodas because sodas are free.

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So it was just kind of nice to get out of my head and just exist. So I've been also looking into different ways to promote the new podcast and just trying to think of what the future of Hello Cupcake it's Me is going to be. And for those of you who are new and don't know, Hello Cupcake it's Me has been around for almost twelve years now I think. Yeah, it's like ten or twelve years, but sorry about all that background noise. That's my phone notifications and stuff going on. But yeah. So over the years I've just really been trying to keep things fresh, keep things interesting and keep people coming back to check up on it. And so for the longest time there though, I was only blogging every so often and same thing. When I started doing my YouTube videos, I would only do YouTube videos like once every so often. It was kind of like, oh yeah, I haven't done content in a while. Maybe I should update the content. And since I started updating regularly on the YouTube channel, my followers there have increased some. I still would like to get like 1000 to 1500 viewers. That would be awesome. So if you guys want to do that and head on over to the blog, not the blog but the YouTube channel that's YouTube. Comhopkick it's me and just subscribe to the channel. That would really help. A lot of times I'm double posting like whatever I post on YouTube, I post here on the podcast. But I'm starting to think that I'm going to just really kind of focus on having separate content here on the podcast. I'll still carry some of the videos over into audio format because I know there are some of you who prefer the audio format. You might not always be in a place where you can watch a video but you can listen to audio. So give me some pointers, let me know what you guys think. You could shoot me a message hellocupkeekatsme@gmail.com or just leave a message in the comment section down below. So over the years when I first started the blog, it was all about me trying to lose weight and just trying to be held accountable for what I was going through at the time. And I was actually inspired by Chelsea Handler's book Hello Vodka. It's me, Chelsea. And I thought that is such a fun name because she was talking about her alcoholism and some of the things that happened to her in her life to lead her up to the point of publishing that book. And I thought of like a heavy set guy like myself trying to lose weight and opening the refrigerator and there's like this lone cupcake illuminated by the light of a refrigerator just sitting there tempting me and like my old adversary, Hello Cupcake gets me. So that's kind of where that inspiration came from. And I thought that it was just fun and clever and really also didn't brand my content in any one direction. Over the years I've had some competition with like a Baker or a bakery in Tacoma, Washington, they have a bakery called hello cupcake. I get a lot of their site traffic Thinking that it's them and they get a lot of my site traffic thinking it's me. So I need to make a trip over to Tacoma one of these days and just talk to them and introduce myself and be like, hey, so I'm Hello, cup tickets me and yeah, and just see how that goes. I don't know what I would expect from it, but yeah, it's pretty kind of funny and interesting that I've been doing this for such a long time and then all of a sudden, like about four to five years ago, they show up on the scene and yeah, I even get, like, phone calls on my Google voice number for them looking for orders and stuff like that. And there's been a couple of times where I have called the people back and said, hey, this isn't the bakery you're looking for. You need to call this phone number or whatever. Just because I'm a good sport like that, I don't want to take anyone's business or whatever, especially when I'm hot in that business

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anyways. But like I said, over the years, hello, cookie has really just kind of transformed and gone through all these different processes. But at the root of it all, it has always been a place for me to feel safe and for me to just vent and voice my thoughts and opinions on things. And that's kind of like where I go with the YouTube also and kind of the direction that I'm thinking about keeping the podcast, unless you all want something different or a different type of content or what have you. But I try to keep things 100% unscripted and just free flowing and fun and I know there's times where I get on the camera or I'm going to get behind the microphone and I'm just going to be an emotional mess. And for that, I'm horribly, horribly sorry. But that's kind of what you're signing up for is the ride of your life with a bipolar dude who is really geeky, has interests in just about everything and everything in between and all of the above. Anyways, well, I'm going to go ahead and hop off of here now, so if you have any questions, comments, concerns, Put them in the comments section down below. And until next time, I will talk to you all later. Bye, guys.

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Thank you so much for tuning in. You have been listening to hello cupcake is me, a podcast with your host, Michael Peterson. Please make sure to check back often as new episodes are released. Biweekly if you have any questions, comments, or concerns, please feel free to send a message to HelloCupcakeitsme@gmail.com And until next time, stay happy, safe, and keep doing the best you can with what you have been given.